OSDD or affect disregulation

I don't believe I have DID. I believe I could have OSDD or UDD. I'm wondering if Thorne could be part of effect disregulation in BPD. Any thoughts?

Once again, there is no reason to distinguish between DID and OSDD or UDD in terms of treatment. Alters can be fully elaborated in all of them. Therefore, if you have OSDD or UDD, then there is no reason to find another explanation for Thorne. She is an alter, like the rest of them that you've described and referred to. Like the little who wanted to buy something from the vending machine even though you didn't have enough money on you at the time.

Affect dysregulation is just what it says, difficulty regulating one's emotions. It is present in many people with many different diagnoses. It is not an entity, with a name, who is capable of exerting passive influence on another part. It just means having trouble staying in, and getting back to one's zone of tolerance in a way that causes difficulty for one.

Where I live they don't like to diagnose DID. I have been diagnosed with everything but. The latest one they want to diagnose me with is BPD. I did a short assessment at a private clinic and my GP is trying to get funding for me to go there but I will also need the psychiatrist to agree and apply because where I live also has a very low amount of funding from outside areas which is why they diagnose anything but DID. I'm terrified of their questions because I don't want to be diagnosed with schitzophrenia again.

So I think, you have parts with names, you're diagnosed with DID, be happy you haven't been diagnosed with everything but DID and have to argue to get a diagnosis. To be fair I've been aware of what's wrong with me and known the name or label DID for ten years and not bothered to try because I thought it was pointless and that a DID therapy would make me have more alters. More came out anyway, I don't have the fear of therapy doing that anymore, and I'm fed up just saying nothing and letting them misdiagnose me. So I've only just started to say anything of what goes on in my head to doctors but still it's not easy. They are not capable to even diagnose me with DID, the psychiatrist said that, they have to ask a specialist. So he tried to make me happy with BPD but I'm not going to just accept it and get on with my life till the next crisis now. I'm going to do this while I'm not in crisis.

Anyway I think just be glad you said "I hear voices" "yes they have names" "yes they say stuff that upsets me, weird stuff, random stuff etc" and they didn't label you schitzophrenic, give you pills that make you hallucinate, feel like insects are crawling all over you and tell you to get on with it - that's what happened with the schitzophrenia diagnosis. I was lucky to have a good psychiatrist for a few years who took me off meds because he asked "are the voices inside or outside your head" and sent me to therapy. I don't think I could of asked for much more in this country at that time.

I actually have been diagnosed with everything as well as DID and I am forced to be on a antipsychotic injection every month. Me and my therapist decided it best that I don't see my DID psychologist anymore. Not because my therapist doesn't think I have DID but because my Psychologist has some questionable ways. Like not retreating and insisting I experience things I don't.

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I actually have been diagnosed with everything as well as DID and I am forced to be on a antipsychotic injection every month. Me and my therapist decided it best that I don't see my DID psychologist anymore. Not because my therapist doesn't think I have DID but because my Psychologist has some questionable ways. Like not retreating and insisting I experience things I don't.

Rive, on what grounds are you being forced to have medication injections? Chemical restraint (because that's what it is) is usually only allowed in cases of emergency or for a period of time as specified by a physician for a clear reason. And that's supposed to be re-evaluated periodically because circumstances change. If you don't have a psychotic illness, what's the basis for them forcing you to take antipsychotics? (You don't have to share that here--I'm just raising it as something to think about.)

Those meds have potentially serious long-term side effects, so they should only be prescribed for a clear specific reason, with clear target symptoms. I think you said that your psychiatrist changed your diagnosis from schizophrenia to DID? Then the medications should be re-evaluated, because antipsychotics are usually only needed for very unstable systems in distress, and/or serious risk of harm to self or others.

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The owner where I live is forcing me to stay on a antipsychotic. She said if I don't get the injection I am out on the street and my family won't let me live with them especially if I am not on these meds. It all started when I began cutting alot. To the point I needed stitches but I was cutting because I wasn't sleeping and I was not getting any help with that. They tried me on Invega. I am sleeping now and so I dont have to cut anymore to get help with that. The regular hospital won't help you with sleep meds so you have to get admitted into a psych ward. So now they are convinced I need this med in order to be safe when all along I was just trying to get help with my sleep. I don't want to be homeless. Especially in the winter. It's supposed to snow here next week. I just had a talk with the owner of the group home about 20 min ago and she said she thinks it stabilizes my mood and doesn't want me off because she feels I will cut again. I told her if I got off the Invega and couldn't sleep I would go back on it and continue to take my Zoloft. She won't let me. My liver bloodwork is high. I know it's the Invega because every time they lower my dose those numbers get a little better. I don't want to be on a antipsychotic but I do have psychotic thoughts sometimes.